RabbitMQ

Traditionally, LabVIEW is often used in a single data acquisition application. Measurement files are stored locally and data is analysed with Diadem or Matlab for instance.

However, today, that's not enough anymore. In the world of Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 everything is connected to everything else. The machine is connected to the warehouse, to both internal and external maintenance engineers, to other machines, to the central database, to the R&D engineers, to a MES application, etc. 

This can be difficult to achieve in LabVIEW. Not saying it is impossible, but it will take a lot of effort. If you were to program this exclusively in LabVIEW it means you would have to write special code to interact with all kinds of programming languages, systems and third party software you don't have control over.

In stead why not make your LabVIEW program part of a Service Oriented Architecture? Why not have a architecture with multiple applications written in different programming languages, which are able to communicate with each other by putting messages in a message queue? 

This is possible! It is called RabbitMQ. It is similar to LabVIEW queues, but is much more powerful. RabbitMQ allows you to sent/receive messages persistently from any any application on the network by using filters and tags. This allows you to quickly scale and adapt your software infrastructure to match the requirements of your business needs.

Your LabVIEW application would put data messages on RabbitMQ using the LabbitMQ package. One application would pick it up and store it in a database while another application might use that same message to sent a text message to a maintenance engineer. Yet another application could pick up that very same message to update the MES.

It is very powerful and it can help you to create a true Service Oriented Infrastructure

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